[Wolves] Discussions about email client

[Dave Morley]

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 09:19 +0000, Mark Croft wrote:
> i liked the simplitic look for ms outlook too , just does the job
> without lots of bells and whistles , also its neterual colour scheme
> as well , does not look like i am using a playstation or xbox game. I
> migrated from outlook to thunderbird but found it a bit heavy weight
> on my Celeron 666MHZ computer running windows 2000 at the time. So
> that when i made the choice to ditch email clients and just use the
> webversions , also was booting into between win2000 n linux , mum had
> a linux desktop  on P2 machine which i used in times.
> 
> Now we have
> AMD Athlon 1250GHZ(shud b 2400GHZ but cpu not supported on MOBO i
> think is the problem) , 256MB MEMORY,40GB HDD Windows 2000 and SCSII
> 40GB HDD with xubuntu 6.10.
> 
> P4 3.2GHZ,256MB MEMORY,20GIG HDD (machine using now) Windows 2000.
> 
> (MUM WORK COMPUTER)Dell P3/900MHZ,20GIG HDD,256G MEMORY,xubuntu 6.04(i think).
> 
> Laptop P3/400MHZ,64/128MB(??? not sure),8GB HDD,CDROM,FLOPPY(will
> probably bring along to get wireless card working maybe at curry
> nite??? wud b nice to take away for christmas when fed up with family
> can go n hide with it)
> 
> Mark
> 
> On 18/12/2007, ArchLinuxUser dick_turpin <dick_turpin at archlinux.us> wrote:
> > On 17/12/2007, Dave Morley <davmor2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Nothing wrong with gnome you just need to be intelligent to use it :P
> > > Are you saying your not?
> >
> > No to use Gnome you need a terabyte HDD and 100GB of memory ;-) :-P
> >
> > > No just joking, to be honest I think email clients is one of those
> > > things that work the way you want or don't.  There seems to be no in
> > > between app that works.  I think the main problem is that it is a real
> > > app that has a personal feel.
> >
> > Yep you've hit the nail on the head. I make no apologies for saying
> > that I'm a big fan of Kontact which Kmail is a part of (I know Kmail
> > is a stand alone too) IMO Kontact is the Linux/open source alternative
> > to MS Outlook which is probably why I like it so much.
> >
> > > A web browser is just a window to the
> > > web, movie players just need to play movies and look nice.  Email
> > > clients though need to feel right have all the right plugins and spam
> > > filters and .......  The list just goes on.
> > >
> > > Pete if Kmail is your favourite why not use it :)
> >
> > I pretty much do which is why I'm making myself try something new
> > rather than sticking with the same-old same-old.
> >
> > --
> > Regards
> >
> > Dick Turpin
> > http://www.cannon-linux.co.uk
> >
> > Arch Linux is an independent i686-optimized community distribution for
> > intermediate and advanced Linux users. Utilising a Rolling Release
> > System packages are regularly updated and an ISO release is just a
> > snapshot to the stable packages at that time. So there's no need for a
> > fresh install the command 'pacman –Syu' upgrades the whole system.
> >
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Mark silly question have you had a look for a bios update for your Mobo.
If it supports the chipset it should be capable of supporting your chip.
A lot of the time mobo manufacturer's only support the highest rate chip
at the time and then release updates for new chips it can support. 
-- 
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